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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Blackheath. You may be able to find further references to Blackheath in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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BLACKHEATH | a hamlet, five chapelries, and a hundred | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Blackheath within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 31, 1739: Gloucestershire and Bristol | 3 |
Charles Wesley | May 1 - Aug. 6, 1740: London,and then to Bristol | 3 |
John Wesley | 1739: Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Lee | 0 | 2 |
Kidbrooke | 0 | 2 |
Lewisham | 12 | 2 |
Greenwich | 33 | 3 |
Ladywell | 0 | 2 |
Westcombe Park | 0 | 2 |
Deptford | 38 | 4 |
Charlton | 3 | 8 |
Rushey Green | 0 | 2 |
Catford | 0 | 2 |
Brockley | 0 | 2 |
the Isle of Dogs | 0 | 3 |
Millwall | 0 | 1 |
Eltham | 15 | 2 |
Mottingham | 0 | 2 |
Hatcham | 0 | 2 |
Honor Oak | 0 | 3 |
New Cross | 0 | 2 |
Shooters Hill | 0 | 2 |
Nunhead | 0 | 2 |